If you are planning to have your child baptized, kindly notify the parish office at least four weeks prior to the baptism. Parents and ideally godparents as well, are required to attend a class prior to the celebration of the sacrament.
Mass Schedule
Daily Mass is celebrated
Monday thru Friday: 7:00 & 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Saturday St. Joseph’s Oratory
27 Lake St., Leroy, NY 14482
St. Brigid’s
18 Gibson St., Bergen, Ny 14416 Tuesday and Thursday at 8:00 a.m.
Please join us for Eucharistic Adoration
Every Thursday at
St. Joseph’s Oratory
8:30 am to 6:00 pm
Vespers at 6:30 pm
Weekend Masses
St. Peter’s Church
44 Lake Street , LeRoy, NY 14482 Sunday 7:15, 8:30, 10:30 a.m & 6:00 p.m.
St. Brigid’s Church
18 Gibson St., Bergen, Ny 14416 Saturday Vigil 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
First Eucharist News: Are you searching for that perfect gift for a child, grandchild, or godchild for their First Eucharist celebration? A representative from Parson’s Place in Attica will be at the Parish Center lobby on Saturday, April 20th, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with some of the many gifts available for purchase to commemorate this wonderful occasion.
Grace’s Kitchen—”Come One, Come All” Free dinner is offered every Tuesday evening at LeRoy United Methodist Church located at 10 Trigon Park, in LeRoy. Join us from 5 – 7 p.m. For more
information please call: LCCP Board Secretary, Selby Davis at 585-738-8882. Volunteers are also needed.
Catholic-link- This beautiful video comes from Real Alternatives, a non-profit group which works to support and provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women. The video, a combination of animations and ultrasound images, shows the development of a baby in its mother’s womb and describes the changes which take place at each stage of pregnancy.
A deeper look
The video begins with an image of a pregnant woman, and asks the question “What should I do?” This is surely a question which many women ask themselves, and the answer lies in asking two more questions, regardless of the individual circumstances of the person asking them.
Firstly, is it ever OK to kill another human being? As Christians, we know that the answer is no. Many women live in and fall pregnant under difficult or even tragic circumstances. Poverty, rejection, abuse, rape… There are babies conceived in loving, stable relationships who will be born with disabilities, genetic illnesses or who are simply the wrong gender. And there are those who result from misjudgment or weakness. These babies are all human beings. They are all loved by God, as are their parents, and they all have an equal right to life: each of them is a unique person. Their mothers deserve our love and compassion, and sometimes it can be tempting to think that their lives would be better without the complication of a child, or this particular child, but abortion is not the answer: it will not solve any of these problems, it will not undo past wrongs.
It is the second question which perhaps presents more difficulties, the answer to which is often used to bypass or justify the first: is the unborn baby a human being? Many answers and non-answers have been provided to this question. There are those who take an arbitrary point in a pregnancy and use it to establish a dividing line between person and non-person. The non-person is called a fetus, and the person is called a baby. But it is interesting to note how a wanted child is also called a baby; an unwanted one is merely a fetus. This video provides a clear answer to that question. At the moment of conception, a unique human being is created, and even before this child is born it shows personality traits, responding to sounds inside and outside the mother’s body. Life begins, quite simply, at the beginning.
We should always remember that the decision to abort a child is rarely undertaken lightly. Its advocates may speak of “choice” but many women who walk into an abortion clinic often do so because they do not feel that they have a choice. There is no denying that abortion is a grave wrong and a highly emotive topic: we may experience anger, sadness or disgust when we hear of it, but our response must always be a firm but gentle “no”, and love for all those parents and children whose lives it destroys.
Rosary Novena for Life. The Office of Pro-Life Activities invites you to join the Most Reverend Richard J. Malone, Bishop of Buffalo at Mass on Saturday, June 22nd at 8:00 a.m. at St. Rose of Lima Parish to pray for a Culture of Life. After Mass, there will be a peaceful and prayerful walk to the local abortion clinic silently praying the rosary for the ultimate end to abortion. You will then return to the church for closing prayers where a coffee social will be offered in the school hall.
Catholic-link- This beautiful video comes from Real Alternatives, a non-profit group which works to support and provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women. The video, a combination of animations and ultrasound images, shows the development of a baby in its mother’s womb and describes the changes which take place at each stage of pregnancy.
often used to bypass or justify the first: is the unborn baby a human being? Many answers and non-answers have been provided to this question. There are those who take an arbitrary point in a pregnancy and use it to establish a dividing line between person and non-person. The non-person is called a fetus, and the person is called a baby. But it is interesting to note how a wanted child is also called a baby; an unwanted one is merely a fetus. This video provides a clear answer to that question. At the moment of conception, a unique human being is created, and even before this child is born it shows personality traits, responding to sounds inside and outside the mother’s body. Life begins, quite simply, at the beginning.
